Glenn Sterner III, assistant professor of criminal justice at 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校.
阿宾顿,爸爸. ——格伦·斯特纳三世, assistant professor of criminal justice at 宾州州立大学阿宾顿分校, has received the 2023 Outreach and Online Education Emerging 教师 Award for 参与d Scholarship.
The Emerging 教师 Outreach Award is a University-wide honor that recognizes early-career tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members whose work has significant potential to advance engaged scholarship through teaching, 研究和/或服务. Their engaged scholarship work shows significant potential to influence societal issues on local, 地区或国家层面.
Nominators said Sterner’s research — which lies at the intersection of criminal justice and public health — leads to a better understanding of issues such as substance use and overdoses, 赌博, 以及人口贩卖. Sterner looks at how these issues are combated and ways communities and emergency responders can force more positive outcomes.
Sterner helped form the Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction (CSUA) while a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, and remains a dedicated member and securer of research funding. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC), and he coordinates the Greater Philadelphia Office of the Center located at 阿宾顿’s campus. Sterner’s work in the CSUA and CJRC paved the way for his appointment to the 宾西法尼亚 Overdose Taskforce, led by the 宾西法尼亚 Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and Department of Health.
与匹兹堡大学合作, Sterner leads a team of faculty and staff across Penn State to evaluate the use of $1.07 billion distributed over 18 years, which was sourced from the multistate opioid crisis settlement. The Elevate 宾西法尼亚 Initiative is creating a network of local and state partners to develop a strategy that promotes the most effective health and safety outcomes.
“Through his previous work with the state attorney general’s office to develop the model for how this funding would be distributed among 宾西法尼亚 stakeholders, Sterner has an exclusive insight into how this funding can impact substance-related issues across the state,一位提名人说.
斯特纳获得了超过9美元.5 million for several research projects related to criminal justice and public health through the assistance of the Criminal Justice Research Center.
A trio of grants from the Department of Justice are aimed at combating substance use. 在一个项目中, he worked with 宾西法尼亚 State Police and county district attorneys to improve intelligence techniques to better disrupt the illegal supply of drugs. 在另一个项目中, he worked with law enforcement to increase intelligence capabilities on interstate drug trafficking. 三分之一, he works with state police on using a data-driven approach to applying resources to areas of high need for addressing drug-market issues.
“这一努力增加了州与地方的伙伴关系, and it has the potential to transform the way the 宾西法尼亚 State Police — and other state level law enforcement entities — use localized data to inform interdiction approaches to reduce reliance on intuition or assumptions,一位提名人说.
Nominators also pointed out Sterner’s efforts to combat stigma related to substance abuse. He has worked to help educate the general public and law enforcement on the best ways of addressing substance abuse, 以及那些遭受痛苦的人.
Sterner also lends his expertise to other areas of public health issues, 包括贩卖人口和赌博.
He was instrumental in developing the Regional Interdisciplinary Collaborative Working to Disrupt Human Trafficking and engaged with stakeholders to raise awareness about human trafficking and best practices to combat it. Sterner also coordinated the state’s online 赌博 assessment to understand the prevalence of online 赌博 and potential problematic 赌博 behaviors among this population.
“Sterner’s record is an outstanding demonstration of the work of a junior faculty member who has been able to accomplish so much in just five years in his position at Penn State,一位提名人说.
